Cruz: Let’s not play Santa to K Street

The Hill ^ | December 12, 2014, 10:01 pm | Ramsey Cox

[SoConPubbie]

Sen. Ted Cruz (D-Texas) blasted the $1.1 trillion "cromnibus" spending bill, saying it was full of presents for lobbyists.

“It’s full of Christmas presents for the lobbyists and special interests in Washington,” Cruz said on the Senate floor Friday. “I know it’s Christmas time, but it’s not our job to play Santa to K Street.”

The Senate is considering the trillion-dollar package that would fund most of the government through September, avoiding a government shutdown. House Republicans only funded the Department of Homeland Security through February as protest to President Obama’s executive order on immigration.

But Cruz said that wasn’t good enough. He wants an amendment that would prevent the president from issuing nearly 5 million temporary work visas to immigrants already inside the United States.

“The president’s executive amnesty is lawless and unconstitutional,” Cruz said. “We should have an amendment vote on this issue.”

The House passed the bill Thursday night and left town for the year, meaning the Senate has to pass the bill as is to prevent a government shutdown.

"The Senate is going to pass this massive pork-filled mess of a bill," Cruz said. "And yet leadership in both bodies, Republican leadership in both bodies, have said it is designed to stand up to President Obama and his illegal amnesty. … We will learn soon enough if those statements are genuine and sincere."

Cruz shutdown the government in 2013 for nearly two weeks over ObamaCare funding — this time he’s it’s about immigration.

There are also objections about the bill from Democrats — particularly Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who opposes a GOP rider that repeals part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

— This article was updated at 11:50 p.m.

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

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[SoConPubbie]

By the way, where are all the other supposed “Conservative” POTUS candidates on this issue?

Scott Walker???

Huckabee??

Jindal???

Any others???

If they truly want to lead, THEN LEAD!!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

We ought to be asking, where is God?

And the astounding truth is, He hasn’t been invited. No room at the inn. So we can’t complain.

[ZULU]

Cruz for President and Gowdy for VP!!

[UncleSam]

Yes, just where are those highly praised GOP governors on this important day? Speak out now; if not now when?

This is also a most interesting time for Senator Warren to make her stand against Hillary.

[HiTech RedNeck]

How about Jesus for Lord?

[HiTech RedNeck]

You will look in vain while not inviting the Lord amongst us.

[Dr. Sivana]

Cruz not only carry a tune, he knows the music.

He knows it well enough to be able to build on a riff.

[grania]

this is also a most interesting time for Senator Warren to make her stand against Hillary

Her Senate speech yesterday might still be available on CSPAN. It's real good and unambiguous. She spells out the excesses of big banking, in particular Citibank. She now owns this very important issue, I suspect.

[GeronL]

smack them where it hurts!

[VRWC For Truth]

Nancy Bonor spending like DemocRats. Not one dime’s worth of difference.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It is a dance of quiet desperation. The Democrats having wrecked morale, the GOP has lost any vision beyond directing emoluments to its own in the class war. “Money is the answer to everything!” as the Preacher cynically states in Ecclesiastes about a godless world.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (D-Texas) blasted the $1.1 trillion “cromnibus”

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[ZULU]

He is my Lord. I don’t need to elect him.
:)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Accept or reject continues to be the choice set forth by the Lord. He can be your Lord unto blessing or damnation... your choice and you cannot quibble your way out of that responsibility.

[House Atreides]

this is also a most interesting time for Senator Warren to make her stand against Hillary

Her Senate speech yesterday might still be available on CSPAN. It’s real good and unambiguous. She spells out the excesses of big banking, in particular Citibank. She now owns this very important issue, I suspect.
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I agree. Hillary’s tactic of laying low and “protecting the lead” appears, at least to me, to be enabling a Warren surge into the lead for the 2016 nomination. Hillary wants to have it both ways—continue to make huge sums of money now doing cookie-cutter speeches but still snag the 2016 nomination at essentially the last minute. It’s not working for Hillary.

[ZULU]

Hey. You are preaching to the choir.

[HiTech RedNeck]

So let’s get the whole world singing

[ZULU]

O.K.